CONGRESSMAN WEXLER- AMNESTY

Our borders are overrun with Drugs and Illegal Aliens , S Fl. has become a third world country with tens of thousands of illegals living 20 to a room in slumlord bldgs., hundreds more coming everyday and This is Congressman Wexler's answer to the problem . Comprehensive Immigration reform is code for AMNESTY


January 22, 2008Mr. Dear Mr. McNelis:Thank you for contacting my office regarding, H.R. 4088, the "Secure America through Verification and Enforcement Act" (SAVE Act). I appreciate your views on this important issue. The SAVE Act is an enforcement-only approach to address illegal immigration. I have very serious concerns with this legislation. First, the bill would require employers to use an internet-based system -- the E-Verify system -- which provides employers with an electronic means of verifying the employment eligibility of a recently hired individual. However, the E-Verify system is flawed and contains many serious problems. These flaws could force workers with erroneous information to be laid-off and would prevent them from working for any lawful business for the weeks or months it would take for government agencies to resolve the problem. Lawful employees should not have to fight the government just to keep working. Moreover, businesses should not lose experienced employees while government data glitches are resolved.In addition, the SAVE Act will expand detention facilities used to house illegal immigrants and would increase funding to local law enforcement authorities for enforcing our Nation’s immigration laws. However, enforcing our immigration laws is the responsibility of federal law enforcement officials, not local law enforcement officials. Enforcement-only policies will not repair our Nation’s broken immigration system. The punitive and enforcement-only focus of the SAVE Act will only force illegal immigrants into hiding and increase human trafficking. I firmly believe that this is an unacceptable result. Instead, we need a comprehensive approach that will repair the process used by immigrants to legally enter the country and become legal citizens; we need to repair the process for immigrants to legally work in our country; and we need to address the massive backlog of visas for immigrant families. This bill was only recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. Please be assured that I will keep your views in mind as this bill is considered and debated on the floor of the House. Thank you again for taking the time to write. Please feel free to contact me with any additional questions you may have or anytime I may be of assistance to you. If you would like to be updated on these and other issues, please stop by my website (www.wexler.house.gov) and sign up for my electronic newsletter. I hope you will find these tools to be valuable resources in keeping up with events in Washington and South Florida.
With warm regards, Robert Wexler Member of CongressRW:emConfirmation# 10048292Please do not reply to this email address.